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Reconnecting health with beauty
Must new hospitals invariably be so ugly?
The Grand Tour – what the British got up to abroad
Looking back on the Georgian European vacation with the historian Jeremy Black
Sex selective abortions: Every woman’s right
No one who supports bans on sex selective abortions has the right to call themselves a feminist
The simplest thing is difficult
Does Dominic Cummings know what he doesn’t know about Defence policy?
The Silicon Valley English Dictionary
Twitter’s engineers agree that prejudice is hard-coded in our language
Wokeism is Latter Day Puritanism
Today’s political conflicts replay past battles between Britain’s libertarian and puritan traditions, argues historian Nigel Jones
The silence of the self-censoring writers
Our writers must be bold enough to write the words they want to write, independent, and stronger for that
The book to read if you’re intent on visiting Sri Lanka
A S H Smyth on Andrew Fidel Fernando’s Upon a Sleepless Isle, winner of the 2019 Gratiaen Prize
Going Dutch with Rishi Sunak
Can the Chancellor really be all give and no take?
Inside the academic war on free speech
Good-quality academics are being filtered out due to an illiberal culture of ‘cancelling’ on university campuses
We need to protect our digital rights
The curbing of dissident speech online should be opposed
Illicit fun
Jonathan Leibowitz: Eastern Reflections (Delphian)
Up with expertise, down with experts
Politicians should be informed by experts but not led by them
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Lebanonisation in the UK
Sectarianism, crackdowns and ethnic tension are becoming the new normal in the UK
